This phrase isn't my own; it's from the pen of French writer Romain Rolland. But people credit me with having said it all the time—so frequently, in fact, that I might as well have said it myself.
Click any product to generate a realistic preview (~30s). Up to 3 at a time.
"My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength."
"I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
"Destruction is difficult. It is as difficult as creation."
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters."
"If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall."
Commentary on the quote 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'.
Date: c. 1929-1935
Self-DeprecatingFound in 1 providers: gemini
1 source checked
Your cart is empty
